Venezuela’s Maduro Orders Occupation Of Electronics Store

Drug War? American Troops Are Protecting Afghan Opium. U.S. Occupation Leads to All-Time High Heroin Production

Enough, enough, Maduro said. Venezuelas annual inflation rate rose more than expected to 54.3 percent last month, the fastest pace in as many as 16 years, as the scarcity index, which measures the amount of goods out of stock at any given time, reached 22.4 percent, the highest level since January 2008. Maduro said on Nov. 6 that the country would increase currency and price regulations to combat rising inflation and the decline of the bolivar on the black market. The country, which devalued the bolivar by 32 percent in February to 6.3 per dollar, has been unable to arrest the decline of the bolivar on the black market, where companies and individuals unable to access the official rate pay around 60 bolivars per dollar. Seized Energy Daka, which on its website says says its largest the electronics chain in Venezuela , has five stores in the country and 500 employees. The company will have to sell goods at prices used at the start of October, Indepabis consumer agency president Eduardo Saman said today on state television from the Daka store in the Caracas neighborhood of Bello Monte. Venezuelan state television showed images of military officials in a Caracas Daka inspecting prices of 32-inch flat screen televisions.

drug money laundering is continuing to this day .) The U.S. military has openly said that it is protecting Afghani poppy fields: As Wikipedia notes : Opium production in Afghanistan has been on the rise since U.S. occupation started in 2001. Indeed, a brand new report from the United Nations finds that opium production is at an all-time high . Common Dreams notes : The cultivation of opium poppy in Afghanistana nation under the military control of US and NATO forces for more than twelve yearshas risen to an all-time high, according to the 2013 Afghanistan Opium Survey released Wednesday by the United Nations. According to the report, cultivation of poppy across the war-torn nation rose 36 per cent in 2013 and total opium production amounted to 5,500 tons, up by almost a half since 2012. This has never been witnessed before in the history of Afghanistan, said Jean-Luc Lemahieu, the outgoing leader of the Afghanistan office of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime , which produced the report. *** The U.S.